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SIGIR
1999
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty
ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Mutual Information Based Evaluation of 3D Building Models
This paper presents a metric based on information theory principles that compares 3D object models to images. The metric is based on the formulation of the mutual information betw...
Ildiko Suveg, George Vosselman
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Information-based models for ad hoc IR
We introduce in this paper the family of information-based models for ad hoc information retrieval. These models draw their inspiration from a long-standing hypothesis in IR, name...
Stéphane Clinchant, Éric Gaussier
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COMPGEOM
2011
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Deconstructing approximate offsets
We consider the offset-deconstruction problem: Given a polygonal shape Q with n vertices, can it be expressed, up to a tolerance ε in Hausdorff distance, as the Minkowski sum o...
Eric Berberich, Dan Halperin, Michael Kerber, Roza...
WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Invisible participants: how cultural capital relates to lurking behavior
The asymmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and ...
Vladimir Soroka, Sheizaf Rafaeli